Versailles Sex Offender Sentenced to 15 Years for Child Pornography

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – A Versailles man who is a registered sex offender was sentenced in federal court today for possessing child pornography.

Mylon Duane Addis, 52, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Brian C. Wimes to 15 years in federal prison without parole. Addis has prior state felony convictions for child molestation, which involved multiple occasions of sexual abuse of a 10-year-old victim, and a prior federal felony conviction for possessing child pornography.

On Dec. 9, 2021, Addis pleaded guilty to one count of receiving child pornography. The investigation began on July 8, 2019, when the Lake Area Cyber Crimes Task Force received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that Addis had uploaded a video that contained child pornography. Deputies with the Morgan County Sheriff’s Department executed a search warrant at Addis’s residence on July 16, 2019, and seized his cell phone, a laptop computer, an external hard drive, an LG tablet, and three flash drives. The laptop, tablet, hard drive, and a flash drive contained images of child pornography.

This case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Ashley S. Turner. It was investigated by the Boone County, Mo., Sheriff’s Department and the Lake Area Cyber Crimes Task Force.

Project Safe Childhood

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by the United States Attorneys' Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc . For more information about Internet safety education, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc and click on the tab "resources."